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    scarce


    1. I went thru a dozen women in that time and they were scarce out there where that cut was


    2. Money was scarce but not for the young Bimal


    3. At least he wouldn’t miss this in the dark, even though lanterns were scarce in the yard


    4. Like the rest of club land, the boys are staring at Leona and Bex, putting together the essential facts; it's time to make themselves scarce


    5. Davie is aware of time, aware of the slow dripping down of fragile existence, aware of the need to make himself scarce, but he is fascinated by this montage, by this still life


    6. I found out that parts for the Boeing 777 are particularly scarce at present, making this a plausible motive


    7. He explained that there were scarce traces of the Energy Age in Lumpral, and the whole Trenst basin had been peopled by hunter-gatherer tribes who watched the Energy Age go by while peeking from under the forest canopy


    8. Humans were scarce among them – dwarves even scarcer


    9. Many workmen could not subsist a week, few could subsist a month, and scarce any a year, without employment


    10. Both the pecuniary income and expense of such families have increased considerably since that time through the greater part of the kingdom, in some places more, and in some less, though perhaps scarce anywhere so much as some exaggerated accounts of the present wages of labour have lately represented them to the public

    11. High wages of labour and high profits of stock, however, are things, perhaps, which scarce ever go together, except in the peculiar circumstances of new colonies


    12. In a country, too, where, though the rich, or the owners of large capitals, enjoy a good deal of security, the poor, or the owners of small capitals, enjoy scarce any, but are liable, under the pretence of justice, to be pillaged and plundered at any time by the inferior mandarins, the quantity of stock employed in all the different branches of business transacted within it, can never be equal to what the nature and extent of that business might admit


    13. But there is scarce any common trade in which a small stock yields so


    14. That the chance of loss is frequently undervalued, and scarce ever valued more than it is


    15. have scarce any chance of preferment, they figure to themselves, in their youthful fancies, a


    16. remain in the condition of common sailors, they receive scarce any other recompence but the


    17. silk-weavers in London had scarce been incorporated a year, when they enacted a bye-law,


    18. shoemakers in London who earn forty pounds a-year, and there is scarce an industrious


    19. But this is a security which scarce any man


    20. There is scarce a poor man in England, of forty years of age, 1 will venture to say,

    21. This, no doubt, may be partly the case upon some occasions ; for it can scarce ever be more than partly the case


    22. It affords a good rent ; and the landlord sometimes finds that he can scarce employ his best lands more advantageously than in growing barren timber, of which the greatness of the profit often compensates the lateness of the returns


    23. If the countries are near, the difference will be smaller, and may sometimes be scarce perceptible ; because in this case the transportation will be easy


    24. Among savages, the poorest of all nations, they are scarce of any value


    25. Their whole commerce was carried on by barter, and there was accordingly scarce any division of labour among them


    26. The Spanish armies, though they scarce ever exceeded five hundred men, and frequently did not amount to half that number, found almost everywhere great difficulty in procuring subsistence


    27. The difference in their accounts of the populousness of several other principal towns of Chili and Peru is nearly the same ; and as there seems to be no reason to doubt of the good information of either, it marks an increase which is scarce inferior to that of the English colonies


    28. There is scarce any commodity which brings a better price there; or which, in proportion to the quantity of labour and commodities which it costs in Europe


    29. That, notwithstanding this reduction, the value of silver has, during the course of the present century, begun to rise somewhat in the European market, the facts and arguments which have been alleged above, dispose me to believe, or more properly to suspect and conjecture; for the best opinion which I can form upon this subject, scarce, perhaps, deserves the name of belief


    30. The first comprehends those which it is scarce in the power of human industry to multiply at all

    31. Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land, which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other purposes, it is scarce possible, perhaps, that their price could ever have risen so high as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them


    32. In England, the price of cattle, it has already been observed, seems, in the neighbourhood of London, to have got to this height about the beginning of the last century; but it was much later, probably, before it got through the greater part of the remoter counties, in some of which, perhaps, it may scarce yet have got to it


    33. Till the price of cattle, indeed, has got to this height, it seems scarce possible that the greater part, even of those lands which are capable of the highest cultivation, can be completely cultivated


    34. The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture, just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce


    35. Without some increase of stock, there can be scarce any improvement of land, but there can be no considerable increase of stock, but in consequence of a considerable improvement of land ; because otherwise the land could not maintain it


    36. They make scarce any manure for their corn fields, he says ; but when one piece of ground has been exhausted by continual cropping, they clear and cultivate another piece of fresh land; and when that is exhausted, proceed to a third


    37. These, as they are fed with what would otherwise be lost, are a mere save-all ; and as they cost the farmer scarce any thing, so he can afford to sell them for very little


    38. Almost all that he gets is pure gain, and their price can scarce be so low as to discourage him from feeding this number


    39. The feeding of poultry seems scarce yet to be generally considered as a matter of so much importance in England


    40. In the warm season, when it is most abundant, it will scarce keep four-and-twenty hours

    41. Part of all these is reserved for the use of his own family; the rest goes to market, in order to find the best price which is to be had, and which can scarce be so low is to discourage him from sending thither whatever is over and above the use of his own family


    42. If it is very low indeed, he will be likely to manage his dairy in a very slovenly and dirty manner, and will scarce, perhaps, think it worth while to have a particular room or building on purpose for it, but will suffer the business to be carried on amidst the smoke, filth, and nastiness of his own kitchen, as was the case of almost all the farmers' dairies in Scotland thirty or forty years ago, and as is the case of many of them still


    43. The increase of the quantity of gold and silver in Europe, and the increase of its manufactures and agriculture, are two events which, though they have happened nearly about the same time, yet have arisen from very different causes, and have scarce any natural connection with one another


    44. so that, without any further care or attention, those coffers are likely to be always equally or very near equally full, and scarce ever to require any extraordinary expense to replenish them


    45. were scarce and the rent was coming due


    46. With regard to the latter, it seems to have made scarce any distinction between real and circulating bills, but to have discounted all equally


    47. Corn is, upon most occasions, fully as cheap in England as in France, though there is a great deal of paper money in England, and scarce any in France


    48. , To oblige a creditor, therefore, to accept of this as full payment for a debt of £100, actually paid down in ready money, was an act of such violent injustice, as has scarce, perhaps, been attempted by the government of any other country which pretended to be free


    49. In the whole interval which separates those two moments, there is scarce, perhaps, a single instance, in which any man is so perfectly and completely satisfied with his situation, as to be without any wish of alteration or improvement of any kind


    50. In some ancient cities, which either have been long stationary, or have gone somewhat to decay, you will sometimes scarce find a single house which could have been built for its present inhabitants














































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    Synonyms for "scarce"

    scarce barely hardly just scarcely uncommon unusual infrequent sparse meagre limited singular

    "scarce" definitions

    deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand


    only a very short time before


    almost not